Every spring in the predawn darkness, before the sun’s first rays illuminate the surface of Flathead Lake, Jason Mahlen loads his boat with an arsenal of fishing gear, carefully selecting rods, reels ...

FORT PECK LAKE, Montana — A group of Fargo-Moorhead area anglers, including Northland Outdoors video host Chad Koel, headed not north, but west, to Fort Peck Reservoir in Montana to fish for lake ...

KALISPELL, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is accepting public comment on a proposal to reduce the lake trout population in Swan Lake. The proposal aims to improve bull trout and kokanee ...

A dead brown found on the Big Hole this June. In May, a coalition of more than 30 fishing guides sounded the alarm about the historic trout declines taking place in Montana’s Jefferson River Basin.

Spawning Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri). (Jacob W. Frank/NPS) (CN) — Conservationists sued the U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday over its plan to replace introduced rainbow ...

BUTTE — Native trout tending. Riparian repairs. Livestock corralling. Automated water releases from a high-elevation lake. Restoration of a historic river channel. Three recently announced federally ...

MISSOULA -- Low flows and stream blockages may have contributed to some lower-than-usual spawning results in the annual northwest Montana bull trout survey this fall. “In some streams, our annual ...

BILLINGS – Altering fishing regulations for southwest Montana rivers as trout populations crash seems perilous, two members of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission said earlier this month. “It ...

From a tour of the 5 best trout towns around Yellowstone, to a review of the simple, durable YETI Sidekick, to 4 guaranteed fishing tips for all anglers, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for public comments on proposed state efforts to protect native westslope cutthroat trout in the Flathead Basin’s tributaries. One half of Montana’s state ...

WISE RIVER, Mont. – Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the ...

Warming waters and other factors along the state’s rivers like the Big Hole appear to be contributing to alarmingly low numbers of the state’s renowned rainbow and brown trout. By Jim Robbins WISE ...